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H-KING
Flying the H-King Floater Jet
Now you are at a safe height, well upwind and nicely trimmed you can practice some gentle turns.
Using just the ailerons try turning left or right, move the stick a small amount and watch the model
as it banks, once you have the desired amount of bank (don't overdo this, keep it gentle) move the
stick back almost to neutral and the model will settle into a gentle turn, you may need to apply a
small amount of up elevator as it turns, avoid too much elevator as you could end up stalling.
While you are practicing these turns try and keep the model upwind of yourself, if it ends up
downwind things can go wrong very quickly and you will start moving the controls in the wrong
direction. Remember when the model is coming towards you the ailerons appear to work back to
front ie: if you move the stick left as the model is flying towards you it will go to your right and if you
move the stick right the model will go to your left. This problem is only overcome with practise, one
way that helps is that if the model is flying towards you and the left wing as you are looking at it
drops then push the stick to the left and vice versa.
At this point should should be flying gentle turns left and right upwind and before the battery goes
flat we need to think about landing. A good well planned circuit should end up with the model in the
right place to execute a reasonably good landing. You can do a left or righthand circuit, whichever
you are more comfortable with. For the purpose of this exercise will will do a lefthand circuit. At a
safe height fly the model off to your left still well upwind then turn the model left and head
downwind, reduce the power at this point to start gently loosing height and fly down the lefthand
side of your landing area. Allow it to come past yourself a little and just downwind of you then do a
90° lefthand turn towards the approach path of your landing area. If you are bit high at this point
reduce power a bit more, if you think you are a bit low gently apply some power to stop the
descent. When approaching the center line of your landing area do another 90° turn to the left and
line up into wind on your landing area. Now reduce power completely and allow the model to glide
as trimmed keeping the wings level with the ailerons. If the model is trimmed correctly and you
keep the wings level it will just land itself, when you have a bit more experience you can apply a
small amount of up elevator when it is just above the ground to raise the nose and flare to a gentle
landing.
Ok, so hopefully you have had a successful flight but things do not always go as planned when
you are learning. If you are flying and things start to go wrong the first thing to do is not panic!!
Close the throttle immediately you loose control, completely let go of the control sticks and let
them go to neutral, if the model is trimmed correctly it will slowly recover itself into a gentle glide.
Once in the glide gently turn it into wind and keep the wings level and allow it to land. Recompose
yourself and think about what went wrong and if the model is still in once piece have another go.
The worst situation is a spiral dive, in a spiral dive the model looses height very quickly and unless
recovery is done correctly the model will end up crashing. If a spiral dive develops then once again
the first thing to do is to close the throttle completely, determine very quickly whether it is a left or
righthand spiral, apply opposite aileron until the wings are level then apply elevator to pull out of
the dive. Whatever you do, do not put in up elevator when the model is in the spiral as this will only
exaggerate the problem and you will crash even quicker.
